I’m still feeling the awkwardness and cringe even after a couple hours have passed

After reading your post, I’m guessing I am about 10 years older than you. I can tell you from my experience that you shouldn’t let this get you down at all.

“What ifs” will cause you far more regret later on life than “tried and faileds” will. This I can promise you. And don’t worry about the girl - even though she said no, inside she was probably flattered you asked.

Hahaha sorry about inflicting it upon you! It's for a good reason, I swear!

Thanks for subscribing! I just sent you a key so you can start testing it out. Still early at this stage, but feel welcome to join the discord for throwing some suggestions and feedback my way! Always appreciated!

King Killer Chronicles- Patrick Ruthfuss, Kvothe is really good at everything and hes tracking down his parents killers who may ore may or may not be an ancient group of evil men. Sadly Patrick Ruthfuss and GRRM took the same writing class on taking their own sweet time and the 3rd and (allegedly final) book is not out yet.

Two thumbs up on this one. I just read this last week and couldn’t put the books down. But don’t start these if you’re not prepared for another wait to finish the series. The last book has been expected for a couple of years.

It starts with Enders shadow, which follows Bean’s growth and eventually follows parallel to Enders Game. The series continues its split though, with a handful following Enders journey to find a place for the bugger queen in space, and the rest dealing with the fallout of all these military genius children returning to earth.

In an ideal world, sure, but we don’t live in an ideal world. People are more likely to click on a video which promises to show one public figure offering a (likely harsh) viewpoint on another public figure. Especially when that other public figure is so widely hated.

I’d almost say this is the opposite of clickbait — it actually ends up offering something better than what you’d first anticipate. You click expecting a brutal verbal takedown and by the end, you’ve marked a dirt-dishing interview with a YouTube head in your diary.

He is right. I also made the same mistake thinking people would be using math while investing their money/resources/time - but no.

Basic example from yesterday : Raw goat was pricing around 150-200 silver per piece. Someone came with 250 meat and undercut the price to 100. From 180 lowest seller to 100 - almost half the price for no reason. At that point I stopped using my logic when trying to understand market behaviour. (This repeated itself several times that day)

I would imagine given the revenue he's bringing in he has a LOT of copyright issues and legalities he needs to manage. The copyright management system on YT is an absolute nightmare and can only imagine the shady stuff people are doing to try to get a piece of the Casey pie.

Well, Lirik was not "fired" into the limelight. I streamed the same games as him and I remember we used to retweet each other a lot, bomb each other etc. I've been a mod in his channel for about 3 years. He's a smart guy, who knew to finish his college degree rather than quit altogether to "live the dream" and stream. If Twitch falls apart tomorrow, he'll be fine because he can get a job with his degree. His channel has steadily grown over time, he didn't just stream one day and suddenly get 30,000 viewers.

You can guarantee me whatever you want, but I was there. I remember him averaging 300-500 viewers per stream. I remember him adding a paypal link, long after getting partnered, due to his community requesting it.

His tweets were addressed to specific people, not the happy-go-lucky streamer who does 2-3 hours a day after work, six times a week and has an optional tip button. Not the smaller caster like myself who gets a disproportional amount of support from a small loyal community. It was to the few who see Lirik, Summit and others do VERY well financially and dive in head-first then can't pay their bills, or simply thirst too hard for tips and get salty when it doesn't happen, somehow blaming Twitch for not supporting smaller casters or even blaming Lirik himself for sucking up all the viewers.

Finally; I don't think for a second Lirik is "lucky". His success might be disproportional to other casters, but that's the nature of the beast. He is a naturally skilled caster. I honestly think people who say Lirik is simply lucky to have succeeded (like some god on Mount Twitch chose him divinely) didn't see the 2-3 years of doing 7-9 hour streams every day with zero days off. I remember him tweeting being really torn up about taking 1 day off a weak.

All of that being said, I do not think Lirik is somehow the all-knowing, figured out all the tricks to success, sage on the mountain streamer people might assume he is. I've seen people get into streaming with a clear intent on making it a financially viable business and do great... but these people were fantastic entertainers to begin with! They probably would have pursued a career on radio or television had Twitch not existed, because that's what they want to do.

I do think the age of plebbing it up on Stream and playing games with your friends of the lulz and SOMEHOW finding success and making it into a streaming career are over, however. Newer casters have a MUCH MUCH harder job of it than us older folk.

The thing is, the entire 'punish exploiters' thing was taken out of proportion because Massive have not come out and just made a proper statement with a proper plan to deal with it and what that plan is.

They need to communicate a lot better and make it clear what they plan on doing. They have not, so of course people are going wild with speculation.

A second point is that any sort of punishment would be a big mistake. There's a ton of bugs/glitches/exploits/QoL updates that need to come first, otherwise you're just going to piss off the players again just like the CM HE drop 'fix' that came mere hours after it was released.

I'm on day 51 with 16 units (been losing people due to bad gate defense). So I've shut down one of my gates and I'm revamping my primary gate (faces the most of the empty map). I just finished upgrading my vegetable farm from about a 4x10 area to 22x20 area that now includes Cotton, Flax, and Wheat. I am about to upgrade my tiny 3x12 warehouse to something around 12-15x10, not sure of the dimensions yet. I also am finally paving the roads and have plans to set up a small housing district with the roofs supporting a small park. I also need to build a keep with attached training grounds (I wish we had a "military hall" that was separate from the regular "hall") and barracks to accommodate my currently small army of 3 archers and 1 infantry. I do have about 7 Lv 11+ archers but they are leftover from when I couldn't specialize because I had too few people. I also lost my 13 blacksmith because he had to help in an earlier defense which set me back by about 2 weeks in-game. Storage is red because of Wheat... I don't care about it enough to have my OCD pick a spot for it to be yet.

When a Necro attacks he will attack your walls and he can make stone burn (unless this has changed?). The fire will quickly spread to your farms and you can be in dire situation. I speak from experience :)

I usually have a 5-10 block buffer from my walls and try to replace the grass with a stone tile that's less flammable.

To keep my settlers in. I was a bit miffed by how easily wolves break down a reinforced door (the other enemies I can imagine, but wolves? Really??), but I am in the process of building defenses that should stop them from ever reaching it. I just want to keep my workers away from the front line.